Women Crime Writers Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives
Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority.[1] She has most recently writtenThe Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World about the kidnapping and captivity of 11-year-oldFlorence Sally Horner by a serial child molester, a crime believed to have inspired Vladimir Nabokov'sLolita.[2][3][4] The book received mostly positive reviews[5] fromNPR,[6]The Los Angeles Times,[7]The Washington Post,[8] andThe Boston Globe.[9]
Weinman edited thecompendiumWomen Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.[12] Weinman also edited the anthologyTroubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, called "simply one of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever." by theLos Angeles Review of Books.[13] Her essays have been featured inSlate,The New York Times,Hazlitt Magazine andThe New Republic. Weinman has published a weekly newsletter about crime fiction calledThe Crime Lady since January 2015.[14]
